“Anders Koppel has written a percussion concerto dedicated to Markus Leoson, who performed it with bravura along with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. We were treated to five movements of calm, wise and not least beautiful music for percussion and orchestra.
The first movement presented rhythm and melody with devil-may-care dash, dizzying flow and the best Gershwin-like feeling. Marimba and glockenspiel in symbiosis with the orchestra produced a romantic second movement with lovely balletic strings.
The third movement recounted a fairytale in the style of Peter and the Wolf, and the complex rhythms of the fourth movement had splendiferous melody lines that wandered through the orchestra and metamorphosed. The fifth and last movement too told its own story, not really with any unexpected content, but all the more imaginatively . . . All in all, an amusing, warm and charming piece!”